Abby Barrows Meyer

“When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.”
― Sharyn McCrumb, The Ballad of Frankie Silver